Ice cream dipper



Patented Oct. 30, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ICE CREAM DIPPER Ora E. Harris, Kearney, Nebr. Application January Z, 1934, Serial No. 704,943

1 Claim. (Cl. 101-48) My present invention relates to an ice cream to said ejector at the center thereof. This ejecdipper 'for molding or dispensing ice cream tor or operating rod 17 is round, extends loosely taken from bulk as the same is received in large endwise through the stem 9, and a guide hole in receptacles from the place of manufacture and the head 10. A knurled knob or finger piece 18 5. said invention is in the nature of an improveis detachably secured to the ejector rod 17, at its ment or refinement of the invention disclosed upper end, outwardly of the head 10 and its enand claimed in United States Letters Patent gagement with said head limits the ejecting 1,896,083 issued to me of date February 7, 1933 movement of the ejector 14. An air hole 19 is and application filed October 20, 1933 under formed in the central head portion 7.

10. Serial Number 694,460. Within the cup 3 is a depending breaker prong To the above end the invention consists of the or blade 20 having at its upper end a screwnovel devices and combinations of devices herethreaded stud 21 that extends through a hole inafter described and defined in the claim. in the top 4 and has applied thereto a thumb- In the accompanying drawing, which illusnut 22. This thumb-nut 22 holds the breaker l5v trates the invention, like characters indicate like prong 20 with its upper end tightly drawn parts throughout the several views. against the under side of the top 4 and thereby Referring to the drawing: securely holds said prong from turning about Fig. 1 is a view of the improved ice cream the axis of the screw stud 21. As shown, the dipper principally in central longitudinal secbreaker prong 20 is flat, relatively thin and 20 tion with some parts broken away and other extends edgewise radially from the axis of the parts sectioned; and cup 3. The lower end portion'of the breaker Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the improved p n 0 is tap d t a l e sharp p dipper. Formed in the perimeter of the ejector 14 is The improved ice cream dipper includes a a radially extended HOtCh 23 t ugh which the 25 cylindrical cup 3 having an open lower end combreaker prong 20 extends and connects the ejecpletely surrounded by a cutting edge. The cup tor 14 to the cup 3 for common turning there- 3, at its upper end, is normally closed by a top with but at the same time permits free reciproor cover 4 having a flange 5 which caps the eating movement of Sa d eje t in the p upper end portion of said cup and is detachably In dispensing ice cream by means of the imso. but rigidly secured thereto by screw-threads 6. p v d pp Said dipper is held by t e handle This top 4 has an upwardly and inwardly con- 11 and finger pieces 12 and 13 and the cup 3 tracted central portion '7 that terminates in an pressed into bulk ice cream to cut a cylindrical upstanding tubular neck 8 axially aligned with cake therefrom. The cake of ice cream while the cup 3. entering the cup lifts the ejector 14 until stopped 35 A tubular stem 9, at its lower end, is fitted in by its engagement With the t p 4. Air caged in 90. the neck 8 and rigidly secured thereto. A cythe cup 3 between the cake of ice cream and lindrical head 10 caps the stem 9, at its upper the top 4 will escape through the air hole 19. end, and is rigidly secured thereto. This head -After the ejector has been stopped by its engage- 10 is provided with a radially projecting handle ment with the top 4 further pressure on the cup 49 11 and a diametrically opposite finger piece 12. 3 into the bulk ice cream will force the die Also integrally formed with the head 10 is a 5 d b05885 16 into the p o the Cake. second finger piece 13 located directly under While the cup 3 is being forced into the bulk ice the handle 11 and spaced therefrom. cream the breaker prong 20 which, as shown,

A reciprocatory ejector 14 is mounted in the is edgewise spaced from the shell of the cup 3,

45 cup 3 and has a disk-like body with a convex penetrates the cake. When the cup 3 is comupper face and a concave under face. On the pletely filled with ice cream said cup is given a under side of the ejector 14 is a die 15 in the slight turn about its axis in the bulk ice cream form of a boss and a plurality of penerating to break the cake at the cutting edge of the cup bosses 16. The die 15 is at the center of the 3 from said bulk. During this turning movement 50 ejector 14 and the bosses 16 are radially outward of the cup 3 the ejector 14 is held by the breakof said die and spaced substantially equal diser prong 20 for common turning movement with tances apart circumferentially about the ejecsaid cup. One function of the breaker prong 20 tor 14. is to cause the cake to turn with the cup and An operating rod 1'7 is provided for the ejecthereby materially assist in breaking the cake 55 tor 14 and is rigidly secured, at its lower end, from the bulk ice cream. Another function of the breaker prong 20 is to assist in holding the cake in the cup 3 while the dipper is being removed from the bulk ice cream.

The bosses 16, which are pressed into the top of the cake, also assist in holding the cake for common turning movement with the ejector 14, and hence, the cup 3. After the cake has been broken from the bulk the dipper is lifted to extract said cakefrom the bulk and said cake thereafter removed from the cup 3 by operating the ejector 14. The purpose of the die 15 is to form a seat or depression in the top of a cake in which a piece of candy or fruit maybe placed.

Heretofore it has been difficult to keep ice" cream clippers clean and in a sanitary'condition To clean the dipper, which is the subject matter of the present application, theseveral parts thereof may be very quickly and easily sepa The ejector 14 may also be removed from the assembled dipper by unscrewing the finger piece 18 and drawing the operating rod 17 from the stem 9. With the parts thus separated the dipper may be easily and thoroughly cleaned.

What I claim is:

In an ice cream dipper, a tubular handle having a centrally recessed head at one end, said head having annular means for detachably securing a thrust cup thereto, an ejector reciprocatably mounted in said handle and having a disk-like body portion receivable within said ":head and movable through a cup, and means carried by said head to one side of its centrally recessed portion for detachably receiving a cake breaker, said disk-like body portion being formed with an opening coincident with said last mentioned means, whereby a cake breaker may be inserted or removed from said head through said opening in said disk-like portion of the ejector.

ORA E. HARRIS. 

